The progressive farmer and the cotton plant. [volume], October 04, 1904, Page 15, Image 15

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Tuesday, October 4, 1004.
PROGRESSIVE FARMER AND COTTON PLANT
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SUNSHINE COLUMN
NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION OP INTER-
Gannon
NATION AIj 8UN8HINE 80CIETY.
Angrelus,
Mrs. J. M. Ransikr, tilate President, Hen-
UluuuiC ... xs.
MRS. RANSIER'S LETTER.
Miscellaneous Sunny Suggestions from
Sunshine Headquarters.
What have I been reading this
week ?
Well, I have been reading one of
the most interesting new books. In
the first place it is full of interesting
pictures. Pictures taken in old Mex
ico, our southwest neighbor. What
interesting neighbors we have. Many
of us do not know enough about them
to know how very interesting they
are. A lady who read the book the
same time I did, said after closing it:
"Oh! I want to go and see Mexico!"
I suppose that is the very highest
praise the author could have. Now
the author of this very interesting
book is a young Sunshiner, just out
of her teens, who is now living in
Texas, but who spent some time in
Mexico and has chronicled some of
her experiences and observations in
this book which is entitled, "An
American Girl in Mexico." One of
its greatest charms is that it is writ
ten in an American style, full of hu
mor American humor, and funny
incidents graphically told. In fact,
it really is an American girl tolling
you these funny and interesting
things and you find it highly inter
t esting and enjoyable. The book isn't
full of statistics as to how high thi3
or that mountain is, that you can
learn in your geography, nor is it full
of facts that you can read in any his
tory or guide book, but it is full of
just the things you and I would ask
Mis McGary, it's young author, if
we could meet her and get her to
talking about her stay among the
Mexicans, and have her tell just the
things we want to know and hear
about.
Miss McGary is a warm, active
Sunshiner in Brownsville, Tex.,
where shq lives, and I think the book
she has given the public is another
one of her Sunshine deeds. There is
nothing better that you can give a
friend for a Christmas, birthday, or
any other gift, than a copy of this
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I wonder if you dear Sunshiners
. . ... . i
will like it if I "pass on" to you tnis
week a few scraps from this book of
Miss McGary's? I believe you will
enjoy them even as I did; so here
they are.
This first is about the Mexican's
bathing habits:
f'There was a dear little bright
eyed Mexican baby living opposite
us whose nurse brought it out on
the sidewalk every afternoon dressed
in glaring pink. It would laugh and
coo when it spied me, and, greatly
flattered, I decided to go over and
make friends with little Miss Teresa.
She immediately held out her hands
for me to take her in my arms, which
I did. To my dismay I perceived
that her ears were not as shell-like
aa they might be, and there was an
unmistakable necklace of dirt about
her little throat, so I hastily . handed
her back to the nurse with a forced
smile, and went home. The Senora
asked me why I staid no longer. 'Be
cause the' baby was not clean,' I an
swered in my clearest Spanish. 'Oh,
you are mistaken the Senora assured
me. 'I know her mother and she is
very careful with her baby. She
bathes it every week !" -
"The 'peon' class are positively
feline in their dread of water. It is
a religious duty to bathe on the
twenty-fourth day of June, and it is
a well authenticated fact that this is
the only bath most of the poorer class
take during the year. Firmly do
the 'pobres' believe thatf this bath
brings beauty to the maiden, vigor
to the matron, and freshness to the
old maid.
"One who has been among them
does not find this hard to believe.
Josef, our yard man, said to me that
'Americans are like fish; they love
water I asked him if he were going
down for a bath on the twenty
fourth. 'Oh. yes. I always do ho as
sured me. We went to watch them.
and while a trifle embarrassing, it
was a very amusing spectacle. When
thft men filed into the river their
wives or some attentive female
would proceed to wash their clothes
and lav them out to dry. The bath
was necessarily a long soaking one,
waiting for the clothes to dry. When
all the men had arrayed themselves
in their fresh linen and departed,
the women put the children in and
hvsrnri to disrobe. But we J eft
just then. Next day I asked ,Osef
ahnnt his bath. 'I was sick, Senorita
he said mournfully. 'But I will bathe
next June It never seemed to occur
to Josef that a bath on any other
day would be as clean."
Another good story is as ioiiow?;
"A rnVvle is a source of unending
.ufioQitv to these people. I heard
of a party of Americans who were
invited to a ball on a ranch. They
;i0rl nut. indeDendently on their
wheels, and a kindly-disposed serv
ing woman took the name oi eacn
one on a separate card as they en-
a fnr -what reason they did not
Question. When they started home,
each found a cam aeauj i
the tire as flat as it
could be. I think they decided to
spend the night on the ranch.
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